[LINK] reporting potential illegal activity on the internet

[Geoffrey Ramadan]

Jan

Check out
Australian High Tech Crime Centre
http://www.ahtcc.gov.au/

"Role of the AHTCC - The AHTCC provides a nationally coordinated 
approach to technology enabled crime. Its brief is to combat serious and 
complex high tech crimes, especially those beyond the capability of a 
single jurisdiction."

 From this you will find.

*Reporting Internet scams*
If you have suffered financial loss from an Internet scam, please see 
Fraud - auction site, online or credit card for more information about 
how to report the incident.
http://www.ahtcc.gov.au/about_high_tech_crime/types_of_crime/online_fraud

If you have not suffered a financial loss the Australian Competition and 
Consumer Commission (ACCC) 'slam a cyberscam' page is the appropriate 
place to report the incident.
http://www.accc.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/393952

Regards
Geoffrey Ramadan B.E.(Elec)
Chairman, Automatic Data Capture Association (www.adca.com.au)
and
Managing Director, Unique Micro Design (www.umd.com.au)


Jan Whitaker wrote:
> Linkers,
>
> This country is such a shambles when it comes to reporting e-crime. I 
> received a potential money laundering scam, not just a phishing one, 
> and tried to find an agency that would be able to receive the 
> information. AFP defers to ACMA who defers to etc etc etc. I ended up 
> being referred back to where I started.  There are all sorts of 
> 'protect the children from nasty words' programs, but I'm really 
> disheartened that when it comes to real crime, they don't have their 
> act together.
>
> Anyone have any advice?  The best I could do was send it to a personal 
> contact whose address I'm not sure is still active from my 
> participation on a committee at Austrac. I really don't think that's 
> good enough and will be writing to a few MPs about the situation.
>
> Jan
>
> Jan Whitaker
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